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SINGAPORE – 31 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed as of noon on Monday (Sept. 21), bringing Singapore’s total to 57,607.
In a statement, the Ministry of Health (MINSA) said that nine of the new cases were imported. Patients had received stay-at-home notices since arriving in Singapore. There were no community cases.
More details will be announced Monday night.
On Sunday, the Ministry of Health reported four new imported coronavirus cases: one traveler arrived from Iran and Germany and two cases from the Philippines. They were put on notice to stay home upon arrival in Singapore.
All four were among 18 new coronavirus cases confirmed Sunday.
There was a case in the community, a holder of a work permit, who is currently not linked to other cases.
He was detected during routine tests on the roster of workers from the construction, marine and process sectors staying outside the dormitories, and was detained despite the fact that he was asymptomatic.
The remaining 13 cases are foreign workers housed in dormitories. Five of them were previously identified as contacts from previous cases and were quarantined.
The other eight were detected through surveillance tests, such as routine roster testing of dormitory workers.
Telecommunications service provider Zero1, located in the Trivex building on Burn Road in the Tai Seng area, was one of the places that Covid-19 patients visited while they were infectious, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
The location was added to a list of places visited by community cases during their infectious period. Zero1 was visited on September 13 from 1:05 p.m. to 2:40 p.m.
The number of unrelated cases in the community has been stable, averaging less than one case per day for the past two weeks.
On Sunday, 39 cases were discharged, for a total of 57,166 who have fully recovered from the disease.
A total of 30 patients remain in the hospital, while 338 recover in community facilities. None are in intensive care.
Singapore has had 27 deaths from Covid-19 complications, while 15 who tested positive have died from other causes.
Globally, the virus outbreak, which began in December last year, has infected more than 31.2 million people. More than 964,000 people have died.
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